This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they can exert their virtues.
Corruption | Nothing | Science |
Dwight Eisenhower, fully Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than form our strength.
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.... There is no failure except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Failure | Genius | Power | Purpose | Purpose | Success | Weakness | Failure |
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
Corruption | Means | Society | Society |
If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl’s weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God’s noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.
Inconsistency with ourselves is the great weakness of human nature.
Human nature | Inconsistency | Nature | Weakness |
Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.
Care | Gloom | Human nature | Joy | Laughter | Life | Life | Mind | Nature | Pleasure | Receive | Soul | Weakness | Wise |
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the great weakness of human nature.
Human nature | Inconsistency | Mutability | Nature | Temper | Weakness |
Know your own true worth, and you shall not perish. Reason is your light and beacon of Truth. Reason is the source of Life. God has given you Knowledge, so that by its light you may not only worship him, but also see yourself in your weakness and strength.
God | Knowledge | Life | Life | Light | Reason | Strength | Truth | Weakness | Worship | Worth | God |
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Despair | Kindness | Resolution | Strength | Tenderness | Weakness |
War is both the product of an earlier corruption and a producer of new corruptions.
Corruption | War |
Every society is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.
Ovid, formally Publius Ovidius Naso NULL
You cloak your weakness in big words.